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- Title
A crítica comunitarista de Charles Taylor à concepção liberal de liberdade (negativa).
- Authors
Ramos, Cesar Augusto
- Abstract
We intend to show that Taylor's communitarian criticism of the liberal view of (negative) freedom proposes a new way of seeing the freedom of the will (which is called positive freedom). Theories of negative liberty simply rely on an opportunity-concept. This concept does not involve the capacity for realization, since it applies to (negative) freedom as the absence of obstacles, which becomes explicit as the power to do this or that without facing external, physical or legal impediments, for the exercise of this or that possible action. The issue becomes more complex with the exercise-concept, whereby freedom essentially entails self-determination and control over the person of the agent and their action and, therefore, has an intrinsic value of achievement and not simply an instrumental one. Without neglecting the importance of the liberal value of individual freedom, Taylor proposes a new way of seeing this freedom: it does not reside in the exercise of undifferentiated options, but in the actual exercise of capacities through the fulfi lment of certain desires that are defi ned as authentic. We are free only if we do what we really want on the basis of our true desires, not compromised by internal obstacles, in particular by the non-authenticity of some of them.
- Subjects
TAYLOR, Charles, 1931-; PHILOSOPHY of liberty; COMMUNITARIANISM; LIBERALISM -- Social aspects; INDIVIDUALISM; DESIRE (Philosophy); ETHICS
- Publication
Filosofia UNISINOS, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1519-5023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/fsu.2014.151.02